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oS Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L I b. 2. 



^ T Be Description 



1 f 1 Erbe Aloe hath bath leaues like thofe of fea Onion, very long, broad,fmooth, thick? 

 \\ bending backewards,notched in the edges, fet with certaine little blunt prickles full 



of tough and clammie juyce like the leauesof Houfleeke. The ftalke, as Di fconj es 

 faith is like to the ftalke of Affodill: the floure is whiti(h 5 the feed like that of Affodill. the root 

 is fingle,of the fashion of a thicke pile thruft into the ground. The whole herbe is extreatne bitter 

 fo is the jiiyce alfo that is gathered thereof. 



f 2 There is another herbe Aloe that growcth likewife in diuers prouinces of America^tbc 

 leaucs are two cubits Iong,aIfo thicker,broader,greater,and (harper pointed than the former,andit 

 hath on the edges far harder prickles.The ftalke is three cubits highland a finger thicke,the which 

 in long cups beares violet coloured floures. t 



^f The Place. 



This plant growcth very plentifully in India,and in Arabia > Coelofyria,and JEgipt/rom whence 

 the juyce put into skins is brought into Europe. It groweth alfo, as Diofcortdcs writetb,in Afia,on 

 the tea coafts,and in Andros,but not very fit for juyce to be drawn out. It is likewife found it Apu- 

 lia,and in diuers places of Granado and Andalufia,in Spaine, but not farre from the fea : the juyce 

 of this is alfo vnprofitable. 



5[ ThtTime. 



The herbe is alwaies grcene, and likewife fendeth forth branches, though it remaine out of the 

 earth,efpecially if the root be couered with lome, and now and then watered : for fo being hanged 

 on the feelings and vpperpofts of dining roomes, it doth not oncly continue along rime grcene, 

 but it alfo groweth and bringeth forth new leaues:for it muft haue a warme place in Winter time, 



by reafon it pineth away if it be frozen. 



^J" TheWjmet. 





The herbe is called in Greeke m* t in Latine,and in {hops alfo, Aloe : and (b is likewife the juice, 

 The plant alfo is named *#£<«, Vw*. ^»»> im**/** : but they are baftard words : it is called *&&» be- 

 caufe it liueth not onely in the earth, but alfo out of the earth. It is named in French, Ponquet : 

 in Spanifc,<^4$*fflfr,and Tcruabauofa: inEnglifh, KAloes^ herbe indices y Sea Houfeleeke, SeaAu 



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grene. 



Theherbe is called of the later Herbarifts oftentimes Sempervivum^ and Sempervivum Mtrim 

 becaufcitlafteth Iong,afrcr the manner of Houfe-leeke. It feemcth alfo that Columella in his tenth 

 booke nameth it Stdum, where he fctteth downe remedies againft the canker-wormes in trees. 



Prof nit & plant U latices inf under* am arts 

 v Marrubij^multoqucSedicontingerefacco. 



In Englifli thus : 



Liquors of Horehound profit much b'ing pour'd on trees : 

 The fame eftea Sea Houfleeke works as well as thefe. 



For heereciteth the juyce of Sedum or Houfleekeamong the bitter juices,and there is noneoftk 

 Houfleekes bitter but this. 



% The Temperature, 



Alo€ y thit is to fay, the juyce which is vfed in Phyficke, is good for many things. Itisbot,»» 

 that in the firft or fecond degree,but dry in the third, extreme bitter, yet without biting. It i* all ° 

 01 an emplaifticke or clammie quality,and fomething binding.externally applied. 



fTheVertues. 

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It purgeth the belly, and is withall a whoiefome and conuenient medicine for the ftotnatfft jj 



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!n^?K m - aCk ^ n" ° nc Jy is con »fortable. And it purgeth more efftaually if it be not 

 and ^ fit be,it then ftrengtheneth the ftomacke the more. ^fr 



3 It bringeth forth choler but cfpecially it purgeth fuch excrements as be in the ftomad^ 

 5£SP Pnd m - th ? ^ftp^ For it ifotlbe number of thofe medicines,whicb tb G r 



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ffcth n<* 

 rfeth the body from all mannet of corruption. It alfo preferueth dead carkafes from p«" Jt > % 





